Christmas Retreat

In everyday life there are so many moments of being annoyed, stressed, when the critical voice is just screaming from inside. Playfight helped me to deal with it, to transform this inner voice. This knowledge is embodied and practiced in so many different ways, probably as many as people, who got familiar with its concepts. The naivety of the child is combined with struggle of adulthood and interacting together. It is a space gathering people honestly opening for each other, falling and flying together without judgement but being in a moment. I am more than grateful for experiencing it and transforming it continuously.

Studying with Bruno has been one of the most important and influential experiences I have encountered. The work he has developed over the years has grown organically from his endless curiosity and passion for movement which he shares this with such honest generosity. He presents this information in a truly formless way, without ego, and I have found the things I have discovered with him to be applicable in every aspect of my life. I encourage everyone to take the opportunity to spend time with this wonderful artist, as I know I will continue to do at every opportunity in the years to come!

Depois de uma serie de exercícios de uma sutileza inimaginável e analogias que muito se assemelham aos nossos conflitos cotidianos, eu achei que o playfight era algo complexo demais para uma iniciante na arte do contato e improvisação sem nenhum conhecimento em lutas. Porem, ao começar a praticar, vi que me enganei. Eu posso não conhecer formalmente as artes marciais, mas todos os corpos vivos conhecem e amam o movimento, a dança e o combate. Todos os corpos lutam e brincam para sobreviver. O extase de se sentir desafiado e ao mesmo tempo apoiado por outros corpos e uma sensação única, viciante. Você pode ser seu maior aliado ou maior inimigo, de acordo com seu autoconhecimento e consciência de onde estão suas tensões. Embora de fato o playfight tenha uma imensa filosofia por tras que pode nos levar a horas a fio de conversa, toda essa complexidade parece inerente ao corpo e ele se sente grato. Ele se sente forte, poderoso. Obrigada por essa experiência, Bruno, de reconhecimento da nossa forca através da não resistência.

I deeply appreciate Bruno's work and his way of honest and benevolent teaching based on his own embodied experience. I like the way how Bruno proposes to explore the places of resistance or blocks in my body and trying to relax them. Because it not just helps me to keep my physical integrity but it also gives me the opportunity to inquire my corresponding mental and emotional resistance towards life. I experience it a processes of honest and deep sensing to overcome my numbness. In this sense Bruno provides me with a chance to challenge and expand my comfort zone into places of unknown or an opportunity to regain access to my core self or simply increase the options for my action.
But foremost I enjoy his invitation to play and connect with myself and other movers just for the sake of simply playing in of a state of connection and openness and be alive.